Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years

In this book, authors Michael Hout and Claude Fischer report on the the tension between diversity and sameness that has persisted throughout American history.

Distinct cultural heritages and different ways of life have emerged in America throughout its 200 years; and yet Americans coalesce around common principles: belief in God, in democracy, in the just reward for hard work, and in freedom of choice, for example.